Word Finder - bases

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Something from which other things extend; a foundation.

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The starting point of a logical deduction or thought; basis.

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A permanent structure for housing military personnel and material.

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The place where decisions for an organization are made; headquarters.

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A basic but essential component or ingredient.

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A substance used as a mordant in dyeing.

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Foundation: a cosmetic cream to make the face appear uniform.

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Any of a class of generally water-soluble compounds, having bitter taste, that turn red litmus blue, and react with acids to form salts.

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Important areas in games and sports.

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The lowermost part of a column, between the shaft and the pedestal or pavement.

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A nucleotide's nucleobase in the context of a DNA or RNA biopolymer.

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The end of a leaf, petal or similar organ where it is attached to its support.

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The name of the controlling terminal of a bipolar transistor (BJT).

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The lowest side of a in a triangle or other polygon, or the lowest face of a cone, pyramid or other polyhedron laid flat.

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The lowest third of a shield or escutcheon.

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The lower part of the field. See escutcheon.

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A number raised to the power of an exponent.

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The logarithm to base 2 of 8 is 3.

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The set of sets from which a topology is generated.

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A topological space, looked at in relation to one of its covering spaces, fibrations, or bundles.

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A sequence of elements not jointly stabilized by any nontrivial group element.

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(acrobatics, cheerleading) In hand-to-hand balance, the person who supports the flyer; the person that remains in contact with the ground.

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A morpheme (or morphemes) that serves as a basic foundation on which affixes can be attached.

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The smallest kind of cannon.

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The housing of a horse.

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(in the plural) A kind of skirt (often of velvet or brocade, but sometimes of mailed armour) which hung from the middle to about the knees, or lower.

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The lower part of a robe or petticoat.

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An apron.

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A line in a survey which, being accurately determined in length and position, serves as the origin from which to compute the distances and positions of any points or objects connected with it by a system of triangles.

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A group of voters who almost always support a single party's candidates for elected office.

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The forces and relations of production that produce the necessities and amenities of life.

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A material that holds paint or other materials together; a binder.

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Short for base leg.

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To give as its foundation or starting point; to lay the foundation of.

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To be located (at a particular place).

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(acrobatics, cheerleading) To act as a base; to be the person supporting the flyer.

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A low spectrum of sound tones.

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Peter adjusted the equalizer on his audio equipment to emphasize the bass.

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A section of musical group that produces low-pitched sound, lower than the baritone and tenor.

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The conductor preferred to situate the bass in the middle rear, rather than to one side of the orchestra.

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One who sings in the bass range.

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Halfway through middle school, Edgar morphed from a soprano to a bass, much to the amazement and amusement of his fellow choristers.

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An instrument that plays in the bass range, in particular a double bass, bass guitar, electric bass or bass synthesiser.

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The musician swung the bass over his head like an axe and smashed it into the amplifier, creating a discordant howl of noise.

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The clef sign that indicates that the pitch of the notes is below middle C; a bass clef.

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The score had been written without the treble and bass, but it was easy to pick out which was which based on the location of the notes on the staff.

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A root.

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A primitive word, from which other words may be derived.

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The number of distinct symbols used to represent numbers in a particular base, as ten for decimal.

You have some access to data bases that could be helpful.

Bases of the rhinophores surrounded by a sheath; dorsal papillae tuberculated and club-shaped, in a single row on either side of the dorsum; no cnidosacs.

But they supply the bases for that general theory which, as we have seen, is indispensable in economic investigation.

The dome is the leading idea or motif in Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture; the domes are placed over square, not circular apartments, and their bases are brought to a circle by means of pendentives.

To him belongs the merit of carrying out some of the earliest determinations of the quantities by weight in which acids saturate bases and bases acids, and of arriving at the conception that those amounts of different bases which can saturate the same quantity of a particular acid are equivalent to each other.

Every pass of importance is known and recorded; every route of significance has been explored and mapped; Afghanistan has assumed a new political entity by the demarcation of a boundary; the value of Herat and of the Pamirs as bases of aggression has been assessed, and the whole intervening space of mountain and plain thoroughly examined.

That rather covers all the bases, doesn't it?

It will be seen from this statement that Peiper bases his conclusions on grounds far too narrow; and on the whole it is perhaps more probable that Boetius wrote none of the four Christian treatises, particularly as they are not ascribed to him by any of his contemporaries.

They are yellowish-red solids, which behave as weak bases, their salts undergoing hydrolytic dissociation in aqueous solution.

It must have been rebuilt almost at once, for several bases exist, inscribed Augusto sacr(um) Perusia restituta; but, as we have seen, it did not become a colony until A.D.

In 1180 they were set up with their present fine capitals and bases by a Lombard engineer, Niccolo de' Barattieri.

His first research, carried out in Liebig's laboratory at Giessen, was on coal-tar, and his investigation of the organic bases in coal-gas naphtha established the nature of aniline.

Such material, it is suspected, may form the massive bases on which barrier or fringing or atoll reefs are built up.

They give the biuret and xanthoproteic reactions, and form salts with both acids and bases.

The petals are generally white or yellow, more rarely lilac or some other colour, and between the bases of the stamens are honey-glands.

It is on a consideration of these factors of t that Cayley bases his solution of the quartic equation.

A minute entosternite having the above-described structure is found in the Crustacean Apus between the bases of the mandibles, and also in the Decapoda in a similar position, but in no Crustacean does it attain to any size or importance.

Between the bases of the sixth pair cf limbs and behind the prosomatic carapace is seen the tergite of the small prae-genital somite.

Between the bases of the prosomatic limbs an anterior III and a posterior sternal plate (black) are seen.

Appendages of 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th pairs similar in form; their basal segments in contact in the middle line and immovably welded, except those of the 3rd pair, which have been pushed aside so that the bases of the 2nd and 4th pairs are in contact with each other.

The bases of the columns are either reeded or decorated with a plait-pattern; the capital has the broad channel between the volutes subdivided by a carefully-profiled incision; and the top of the shafts is ornamented by a broad band of palmette or honeysuckle pattern.

It forms double salts with metallic chlorides and with the hydrochlorides of organic bases.

Certain departmental details were despatched to South Africa to form a working nucleus for military bases, and early in September the cabinet sanctioned the despatch to Natal from India of a mixed force, 5600 strong, while two battalions were ordered to South Africa from the Mediterranean.

The triazoles behave as weak bases, the imido-hydrogen being replaceable by metal.

They are feeble bases which distil unchanged.

The nitrate of this base (known as nitron) is so insoluble that nitrates may be gravimetrically estimated with its help. These bases combine with the alkyl iodides to yield quaternary ammonium salts.

Aniline and similar bases are oxidized and partially nitrated by nitroglycerin, with the production of non-explosive compounds.

These three bases of knowledge were known as the "tripod" of the empirics.

He made a resolute attempt to reconstruct medicine on the two bases of the doctrine of the circulation of the blood and the new views of chemistry.

The conveniently situated islands of Tenedos and Lemnos (the latter offering the immense landlocked haven of Mudros as an anchorage) were occupied to serve as naval bases, and on Feb.

The arrival of German submarines 3 during this month proved 3 Already a special German submarine command had been established in the Adriatic, with bases at Pola and Cattaro, and some small boats were sent thither by rail.

The newer glasses, on the other hand, contain a much wider variety of chemical constituents, the most important being the oxides of barium, magnesium, aluminium and zinc, used either with or without the addition of the bases already named in reference to the older glasses, and - among acid bodies - boric anhydride (B20 3) which replaces the silica of the older glasses to a varying extent.

The alabastra have short necks, are slightly wider at the base than at the shoulder and have rounded bases.

The plaques thus formed could be reheated and fashioned into the bases of bowls and drinking vessels.

They are the broken bases of drinking vessels containing inscriptions, emblems, domestic scenes and portraits etched in gold leaf.

The bases containing the embedded gold leaf must have been welded to the vessels to which they belonged, in the same way as the bases are welded to the Saracenic beakers.

His pages abound in symbols representing unknown functions, the form of the function being left to be ascertained by observation of facts, which he does not regard as a part of his task, or only some known properties of the undetermined function being used as bases for deduction.

Other conjectural identifications of groups of symbols with the place-names Hamath, Marash, Tyana are bases of Sayce's system.

They are neutral to litmus and do not combine with dilute acids or bases; strong bases, such as lime and baryta, yield saccharates, whilst, under certain conditions, acids and acid anhydrides may yield esters.

It seems probable that these suckers are not the true " bothria " but are developed from accessory suckers, the bases of which have disappeared almost completely.

The sulphur exists in the soil chiefly in the form of sulphates of magnesium, calcium and other metals; the phosphorus mainly as phosphates of calcium, magnesium and iron; the potash, soda and other bases as silicates and nitrates; calcium and magnesium carbonates are also common constituents of many soils.

In regard to methods and apparatus, mention should be made of his improvements in the technique of organic analysis, his plan for determining the natural alkaloids and for ascertaining the molecular weights of organic bases b y means of their chloroplatinates, his process for determining the quantity of urea in a solution - the first step towards the introduction of precise chemical methods into practical medicine - and his invention of the simple form of condenser known in every laboratory.

Among these remains are altars, and bases for statues of gods or for golden images of animals dedicated to gods.

The crude anthracene cake is purified by treatment with the higher pyridine bases, the operation being carried out in large steam-jacketed boilers.

The crystallized anthracene is then removed by a centrifugal separator and the process of solution in the pyridine bases is repeated.

They are all strong bases, readily forming salts with the mineral acids and double salts with the chlorides of gold, platinum and mercury.

They are ionized in aqueous solution to a much greater extent than ammonia, the quaternary ammonium bases being the most ionized, and the secondary bases being more strongly ionized than the primary or tertiary bases.

On the other hand, they are much weaker bases than the aliphatic amines, their salts undergoing hydrolytic dissociation in aqueous solution.

The mixed secondary amines have basic properties, but the purely aromatic secondary amines are only very feeble bases.

Prisms deflect rays of light towards their bases.